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Our little boy Luke sure grew up quick

SIGCHI222

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If you have never seen this particular video, do yourself a favor and watch it..............all of it. 

Turn the volume up a little as sound is kind of low.

 

It's old but really cool to watch it now and think to yourself why did we ever doubt this kid?

 

I hope Luke has the game of the century tomorrow.  Hell, I hope they all do. 

 

Big time players step up in big time games.

 

Plus, I figured Lola and Boo would enjoy it.

 

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The Pryor hit was when I knew he was going to be very special

 

That was the shiit.  I jumped up off the couch, slammed whatever headgear I had on that day down into the floor and yelled  bo yah or hell yeah or whatever...but I remember that particular play very clearly.  He had an interception the same game.  Good game for Luke no doubt.

 

Announcers said something about they knew eventually those two (Keek and Pryor) would meet up that day, like it was destiny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soooooooo....where exactly is Pryor nowadays?

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That was the shiit.  I jumped up off the couch, slammed whatever headgear I had on that day down into the floor and yelled  bo yah or hell yeah or whatever...but I remember that particular play very clearly.  He had an interception the same game.  Good game for Luke no doubt.

 

Announcers said something about they knew eventually those two (Keek and Pryor) would meet up that day, like it was destiny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soooooooo....where exactly is Pryor nowadays?

 

pryor just signed with KC

 

as for the play, rumor has it luke screamed "you aint no Cam Newton"

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I love Luke. I feel like, even at this early stage in his career, he's going to be a player that I brag to my kid about being able to see play live on numerous occasions. I got to see what I think will eventually be one of the greatest, if not flat out THE greatest LB to ever play the game.

Really, as Panthers fans, we've all been pretty fortunate. Smitty's legend, Luke's, and I'm hoping Cam can bring us a couple of Lombardi's over his career. Prime time to be a Panthers fan.

Also, most of us here were fortunate to know HeHateMe.

Oh sweet prince....we hardly knew ye.....

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I still remember when people were irritated that we took him considering we had Beason

If we could bring up a transcript of the chat room here on draft day, I'd love to laugh at my remarks. I was PISSED that we drafted a MLB when we had an all-pro MLB.

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Lol yeah, I remember this place flipping out after Luke was selected.

 

After he finally got his first start at MLB against Seattle, it became obvious he was pretty damn good, then he went on a ridiculous stretch of games where he was averaging like 13 or 14 tackles a game or some poo and making a bunch of big plays.

 

It became obvious, to me anyways, that he was really something special in that ass-whooping of that 2nd Atlanta game in our house.  Up until then he was just an amazingly athletic young LBer with ridiculous instincts.  During that game though, Luke showed off just how advanced he was in the mental side of the game as well.  Lol I remember Luke was just constantly changing the defense, barking orders all over the place pre-snap to confuse Ryan, and Ryan kept audibling.  It was like a chess match... one that Luke won in dominating fashion.

 

Score was like 30-0 before Atlanta finally got a chance to start moving the ball and get those garbage time yards.

 

The Raiders game (still one of his more impressive games) only two weeks after that display just cemented my belief that we had lucked into a generational type talent at LBer.

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